F17 vs. Pentium 4

[mwesten]

On 04/10/2012 01:37 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 21:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>>> > I'm pretty sure there must be a less strange and rarely-used way of
>>> > doing it that would be usable in your situation...
>>>
>>> If you know what it is, I'm all eyes.
>>> I started by burning a minimal F16 install CD.
>>> It didn't work.
>>> So far anything involving F16 or F17 has crashed my system.
>>
>> If it's that bad, then I'm not at all sure F16 or F17 would work if you
>> somehow bypassed the regular installation method...
>
> I've been told that a kernel bug broke my motherboard for the F16 install.
> An install mechanism that uses a recent kernel should to the trick.
> Preupdate might be one, but I need a disposable place from which to start.
>

If this is the kernel bug you are referring to, perhaps there is a 
workaround you could use to get your minimal CD running in order to do 
an install.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730007

That issue appears to be related to the following ACPI patch.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=133002974918284&w=2

The description of that patch suggests that passing any one of these 
kernel parameters will prevent the problem.

acpi=off
processor.nocst=1
maxcpus=1

If one of those works, you should then be able to install F16, boot it 
the same way, and upgrade the kernel to one which contains the patch.

-Mike